Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.
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I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.
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In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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I love going to karaoke with friends if I'm having a really tough time.
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I do remember the people who believed in me in the beginning. I'll never forget that.
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The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.
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People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
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My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.
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I'm pretty sure I peaked at 15.
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I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences.
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Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.
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One of the tax systems in the US is for wage earners. The government takes money from them out of each paycheck - so it knows how much they make, and those workers can't cheat to any significant degree. But the other tax system is for capital. Those with capital get to tell the government what they want to tell. They may get audited, but if their tax returns are of any size the government doesn't have enough of the smart auditors to figure out what's really going on. And there are the rules that allow you to do things like take in money today and pay taxes on it thirty years from now.
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I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.
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In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
